Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo

Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo (8 January 1946-), also known as El Padrino, was the boss of the powerful Guadalajara Cartel of Mexico during the 1980s.

Biography
Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo was born in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico on 8 January 1946, and he studied business in college. He served as a federal police agent before becoming a bodyguard for Sinaloa governor Leopoldo Sanchez Celis, becoming godfather to his son. During the 1980s, Gallardo, Rafael Caro Quintero, and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo co-founded the Guadalajara Cartel, and the cartel took 50% of the Colombian Cali Cartel's cocaine income in return for providing bases for the Cali Cartel from which they could smuggle drugs into the United States via Florida. Gallardo became very wealthy, and he had DEA agent Kiki Camarena tortured and murdered. Fonseca and Quintero were arrested not long after Camarena's murder, but Gallardo used his political connections to evade arrest. In 1987, he moved to Guadalajara, and he divided up the drug operation so that it would be harder for the police to bust his operation. He met with several of his lieutenants in Acapulco, and he gave the Arellano Felix brothers' Tijuana Cartel control of Tijuana, gave the Carrillo Fuentes family's Juarez Cartel control of Ciudad Juarez, gave Miguel Caro Quintero's Sonora Cartel control of Sonora, gave Tamaulipas to the Gulf Cartel, and gave the Pacific coast to Joaquin Guzman Loera and Ismael Zambada Garcia's Sinaloa Cartel. On 8 April 1989, he was arrested, but he coordinated his cartels' operations via cell phone until he was sent to the Altiplano maximum security prison to serve a 40-year prison sentence.